# Discourse Memberful integration
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798
**Category:** Extras
**Tags:** payments
**Created:** [4월 11, 2017, 5:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798 "2017-04-11T17:11:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [4월 11, 2017, 5:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/1 "2017-04-11T17:11:03Z")
Memberful is a popular service for paid user subscriptions. They have an official [plugin for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/memberful-wp/) as well as for Discourse:
> **[Integrate Discourse with Memberful - Memberful](https://memberful.com/docs/community/other-integrations/discourse)**
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> Integrate Memberful with Discourse to run a private discussion forum. Use single sign-on so members access the forum with their Memberful login.
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### Author:  [@zaino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zaino)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2019, 5:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/2 "2019-01-27T17:07:20Z")
Curious if anyone has used the Memberful plugin and what your feedback is? I have a community in WP and looking to add Discourse with the option of creating paid membership tiers.
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### Author:  [@DigitalStartup](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DigitalStartup)
#### Post date: [2월 28, 2019, 1:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/3 "2019-02-28T13:57:55Z")
I’m curious what decision you made here. I’ve just started to look into this for my own forum.
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### Author:  [@zaino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zaino)
#### Post date: [2월 28, 2019, 2:08오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/4 "2019-02-28T14:08:15Z")
Still considering this. I anticipate spending a bit more time looking at it in the next week or so. I imagine I will have more questions or insights then and will share.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [2월 28, 2019, 2:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/5 "2019-02-28T14:30:20Z")
I’ve been using it to manage about 700 paying members and it has worked very well. Let me know if you have any specific questions, if you plan to do a trial period, a free tier or have lifetime members I have some learning I can share. I only wish the reporting was improved so I could see how much income I have coming over the next year, it’s somewhat of a surprise each week when I get the report of what I’ve made.
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### Author:  [@waffleslop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/waffleslop)
#### Post date: [3월 17, 2019, 4:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/6 "2019-03-17T04:22:46Z")
Memberful seems like the easiest payment gateway with Stripe, but I am leaning towards Membermouse due to the 1-click upsell functionality.
Can you share what you’ve done for lifetime members, David?
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### Author:  [@Krischan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Krischan)
#### Post date: [3월 17, 2019, 6:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/7 "2019-03-17T06:20:10Z")
Would love to hear what you learnt @davidkingham too…
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [3월 17, 2019, 2:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/8 "2019-03-17T14:31:45Z")
I have the following plans set up in Memberful:
- Free (can only access one area of our forum)
- 30 day trial (can access everything except our member discount section)
- Full Membership - Monthly
- Full Membership - Yearly
- Full Membership - 3 Years
- Lifetime
Memberful has the option to purchase a lifetime subscription, but I don’t offer this option. The lifetime members I have are grandfathered in from an older version of the site which I added manually.
Each memberful plan can have a discourse group tied to it, which allows me to limit access to areas of the discourse site based upon which plan they are on. For example, [this area](https://community.naturephotographers.network/c/image-critiques) of the site is only accessible to paying members or those on the 30 day trial, but not to paying members. I use the [Category Lockdown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advertise-activity-in-a-private-category-discourse-category-lockdown/70649) plugin for this in addition to the discourse category security, here is what this category looks like:
I also have this integrated with ConvertKit for sending out emails when a member signs up, or 20 days into the 30 day trial if they have not signed up yet to try and upsell them, which takes them to [this page](https://naturephotographers.network/upgrade) where they will be asked to put in their CC info and viola they are upgraded and everything syncs with discourse. The key to this is the trial plan has to be cheaper than the other plans, so I have the trial set to $4.98/month, whereas the actual monthly is 4.99/month, so far it hasn’t confused anyone.
Overall I have been very happy with memberful, it’s pretty flexible and works smoothly. The customer support is exceptional, they have really bent over backward to help me even when I have made stupid mistakes and they had move members around on the backend.
The only negatives have been the cost, of course, $25/month is cheap, but the 4.9% fee is pretty crazy as I’m already paying about $100/month and I hope to grow the site quite a bit more. Their reporting is not exceptional right now, it’s okay but I would like to see more of the features that membermouse has along with some forecasting so I know how much money will be coming in next month.
Since I’m not a programmer and wouldn’t know how to fix the integrations with membermouse when they go awry, I will probably stick with memberful since they handle all the integration beautifully. As the site grows I may look into these other options as cost start to balloon with memberful. Hope this helps, happy to help with other questions!
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### Author:  [@waffleslop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/waffleslop)
#### Post date: [3월 17, 2019, 3:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/9 "2019-03-17T15:01:29Z")
Thanks for the detailed reply. Memberful’s fees are bogus for sure. But better than some of the other membership plugins devs have made for Discourse (I saw one that was 7%! 😑).
I want to pay a monthly fee for a tool, not a monthly fee plus a percentage of revenue.
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### Author:  [@Paracelsus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paracelsus)
#### Post date: [1월 3, 2020, 11:50오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/11 "2020-01-03T11:50:43Z")
> [@davidkingham](#):
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> Memberful에서 다음 플랜을 설정해 두었습니다:
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> - 무료 (포럼의 한 영역에만 접근 가능)
> - 30일 체험판 (멤버 할인 섹션을 제외한 모든 콘텐츠에 접근 가능)
> - 전체 멤버십 - 월간
> - 전체 멤버십 - 연간
> - 전체 멤버십 - 3년
> - 종신
리뷰해 주셔서 감사합니다, David.
이 솔루션을 테스트해 보고 있는데, 현재 모든 로그인 기능이 Memberful을 통해 이루어지는 필수 SSO는 큰 문제가 됩니다. 구글이나 Facebook 로그인처럼 사람들이 평소처럼 로그인하고 가입할 수 있도록 하고 싶습니다.
Procourse 플러그인을 시도해 보고 필요한 기능을 제공할 수 있는지 확인해 보겠습니다.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [1월 4, 2020, 6:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/12 "2020-01-04T18:40:35Z")
다른 로그인 옵션이 있으면 좋겠지만, 제 사이트에서는 그로 인해 문제가 된 적이 없습니다. Memberful이 탄탄한 기업(그렇게 보이지만)에 의해 지원받는 점이 마음에 듭니다. 또한, discourse league 사이트가 다운되어 있는 것을 보니, 앞으로 Procourse를 사용하는 것에 대해 약간 우려가 됩니다. 오픈소스이지만, 개발자를 고용해서 이를 계속 유지하는 비용을 내고 싶지는 않습니다.
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### Author:  [@Federico\_Tomassetti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Federico_Tomassetti)
#### Post date: [1월 18, 2020, 9:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/13 "2020-01-18T21:59:37Z")
ConvertKit와의 통합은 어떻게 작동하나요?
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### Author:  [@PeterButton](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeterButton)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2020, 2:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/14 "2020-01-20T02:29:35Z")
@davidkingham 님, 자세한 게시글 감사합니다.
몇 년 전에 Memberful을 살펴본 적이 있습니다. 당시 제 결론은 진행하지 않는 것이었다는 것입니다. 회원 가입의 유일한 방법이 개별 구독 과정을 통해 직접 가입하는 것이었기 때문입니다.
저희의 경우, 저희 고객사인 기업들이 회비를 지불하는 팀의 구성원들에게도 접근 권한을 부여해야 합니다. 님의 게시글 덕분에 Memberful 웹사이트를 다시 확인해 보니, 이제 "그룹 구독(group subscriptions)"과 “외부 결제(external payments)” 기능이 있는 것 같습니다.
[그들의 가격 페이지](https://memberful.com/pricing/)에서는 "그룹 구독에서만 사용 가능하며, 외부 결제는 특정 구독을 외부 수단(무선 송금, 수표 등)으로 수동 결제할 수 있도록 설정하는 옵션입니다. 정기 거래 수수료는 부과되지 않지만, 외부 결제를 사용하는 각 좌석당 월 0.20달러의 요금이 부과됩니다."라고 명시되어 있습니다.
더 높은 구독 요금과 결합하면, 이는 그들의 서비스 제공에 대해 매우 합리적인 수수료라고 생각됩니다.
경험을 공유해 주셔서 다시 한번 감사합니다. 만약 Memberful을 진행하게 된다면, 몇 가지 더 질문해도 될까요?
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2020, 2:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/15 "2020-01-20T02:36:03Z")
물론이죠, 도와드릴 수 있다면 꼭 도와드리겠습니다!
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### Author:  [@christian\_01](https://meta.discourse.org/u/christian_01)
#### Post date: [3월 2, 2020, 6:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/16 "2020-03-02T18:18:00Z")
> [@davidkingham](#):
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> 이 페이지
@davidkingham, 정말 멋진 정보네요.
무료 Memberful 플랜을 어떻게 만들었는지 알려주실 수 있을까요? 저도 시도해 보고 있는데, 최소 요금이 0.60파운드라고 나와 있습니다.
감사합니다!
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [3월 2, 2020, 8:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/17 "2020-03-02T20:18:55Z")
> [@christian\_01](#):
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> 무료 Memberful 플랜을 어떻게 생성했는지 알려주실 수 있을까요? 저도 시도하고 있는데 최소 요금이 £0.60로 설정되어 있습니다.
Memberful에서 설정 \> 플랜 \> 웹사이트에서 새 멤버가 무료로 가입할 수 있도록 허용을 선택하세요.
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### Author:  [@rossmith49](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rossmith49)
#### Post date: [8월 24, 2020, 4:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/18 "2020-08-24T16:53:43Z")
@davidkingham Patreon에서 Memberful + Stripe로 전환하는 것을 고려하고 있습니다. 이렇게 하면 프리미엄 콘텐츠를 제 WP 사이트에 게시할 수 있고, 제 Discourse 사이트는 WP 사이트의 서브도메인에 위치해 있습니다. 따라서 모든 콘텐츠를 한 곳에 모을 수 있어 이론적으로는 더 나은 사용자 경험을 제공하고 장기적으로 더 많은 구독자를 확보하는 데 도움이 될 것입니다.
질문은, 여러분이 설정을 진행하는 과정이 어땠는지 알고 싶습니다. SSO가 어떤 방식으로든 필요해 보입니다. 사용자는 WP에서 생성되어 Discourse로 전송되는 방식인가요, 아니면 그 반대인가요? 그 사이에 지연이 발생하면 대비해야 할까요?
저는 개발자가 아니기 때문에, 제 쪽에서 이 전환을 원활하게 진행하기 위해 어떤 작업을 해야 하는지 파악해 보고 있습니다.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [8월 24, 2020, 5:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/19 "2020-08-24T17:27:31Z")
로스, 설정은 정말 간단해요. 디스커스에 SSO 설정 몇 가지만 넣고, 사람들이 가입할 수 있는 페이지를 워드프레스에 만들어주면 돼요. 저는 멤버풀 링크가 들어간 버튼 몇 개를 사용했어요. 그러면 새 멤버가 멤버풀에서 생성되고, 그걸 통해 워드프레스와 디스커스에 사용자가 자동으로 만들어져요. 멤버풀은 사용자가 어떤 플랜으로 가입했는지에 따라 디스커스에서 그룹을 지정할 수 있어서 카테고리 접근을 제한할 수 있고, 워드프레스에서도 마찬가지예요. 이 시스템에 꽤 만족하고 있고, 고객 서비스도 정말 훌륭해요.
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### Author:  [@rossmith49](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rossmith49)
#### Post date: [8월 24, 2020, 6:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/20 "2020-08-24T18:18:29Z")
감사합니다, 데이비드. 정말 반갑습니다! 진행 중 문제가 생기면 꼭 연락드리겠습니다!
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### Author:  [@rossmith49](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rossmith49)
#### Post date: [8월 25, 2020, 12:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-memberful-integration/60798/21 "2020-08-25T00:40:10Z")
@davidkingham 한 가지 질문이 있습니다: 기존 회원들은 어떻게 처리해야 하나요? 이미 현재 Discourse 커뮤니티에 가입되어 있는 경우, 어떻게 해야 하나요?
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